Written ability test. You have 20 minutes and roughly 300 words.
Write a response to: 'India should build on its services strength rather than chase manufacturing.' Take a position, argue it, answer the strongest objection, and close.
100 points, 60% to pass.
This rewards actual knowledge of the economy, and thin answers are obvious. The serious argument for services is comparative advantage already demonstrated, high value per worker and lower capital intensity. The serious argument for manufacturing is employment absorption at the skill level where most of the workforce actually sits — services growth has not created jobs at the scale the demographics require. A strong response engages with that employment asymmetry directly, since it is the strongest case against a services-only position, and avoids treating it as a binary when the real question is allocation at the margin.